In 2002 Warren Ellis and Phil Hester were going to team on a creator-owned
series together but it fell through. The two will finally work together on a new
AfterShock Comic called Shipwreck. Ellis says the series is what would happen if
Cormac McCarthy and Samuel Beckett wrote a science fiction road movie. The
series will tell of an unusual shipwreck that leaves a sole survivor named Dr.
Jonathan Shipwright. He will find himself stranded in a distant reality hunted
by the saboteur who caused the accident. According to Hester we will see
Shipwright trying to piece his history back together after a catastrophic
accident involving a technology he's invented. He won’t know where he is but in
the first two issues we will see him drowned, burned, stabbed, swarmed by
spiders and haunted by flocks of hectoring birds. The supporting cast will
include Bank, a bar owner and undertaker given to a thoroughly grotesque brand
of mortuary science and Val, a beautiful, enigmatic ritual executioner who seems
to know more about his past than he does. |